Bill Text: TX HR1024 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: In memory of Herta B. Sokolyk of New Braunfels.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-03 - Reported enrolled [HR1024 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR1024-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 1024 | ||
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| WHEREAS, The certain knowledge of a life well lived may | ||
| comfort those saddened by the death of Herta B. Sokolyk of New | ||
| Braunfels on January 4, 2013, at the age of 88; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The former Herta Barbara Vollert was born on April | ||
| 14, 1924, in Schweinfurt, Germany; she was educated as an x-ray | ||
| technician at a boarding school in Freiburg, and she later worked at | ||
| the Schweinfurt city hospital during World War II; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Following the war, Mrs. Vollert fell in love with | ||
| Wasyl Sokolyk, a surgeon from the Ukraine, and the couple | ||
| immigrated to the United States in 1952; they were married in | ||
| Brooklyn in 1956, and later moved to Cleveland and Kansas City | ||
| before settling in Kerrville in 1961; over the years, their family | ||
| grew to include a son, Stephen, as well as three grandchildren; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Mrs. Sokolyk was active in a number of | ||
| organizations, including the Buck and Bull Club, the Kerr County | ||
| Extension Homemakers, the German Club, and the local Republican | ||
| Party; in addition, she was financial secretary for Hermann Sons | ||
| Lodge No. 12 for a number of years, and she also volunteered her | ||
| time as an election worker and as a thrift-shop employee for the | ||
| Humane Society; and | ||
| WHEREAS, After her husband passed away in 1989, Mrs. Sokolyk | ||
| took frequent trips abroad and visited relatives and schoolmates in | ||
| her home country; she moved to New Braunfels in 2006 to be closer to | ||
| her son and his family; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Herta Sokolyk was a woman of strength and compassion | ||
| who remained engaged in the world throughout her life, and the joy | ||
| she found in helping others will forever serve as an inspiration to | ||
| her loved ones; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Herta Sokolyk and | ||
| extend sincere sympathy to the members of her family: to her son, | ||
| Stephen Sokolyk, and his wife, Beth; to her grandchildren, Katie, | ||
| Alex, and Steffi; to her stepsister, Elisabeth Ludwig; and to her | ||
| other relatives and friends; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of | ||
| Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Herta | ||
| Sokolyk. | ||
| Hilderbran | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 1024 was unanimously adopted by a | ||
| rising vote of the House on March 27, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
